The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often ywill my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? zAs many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

23 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished ato settle accounts with his servants.124 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him bten thousand ctalents.225 dAnd since he could not pay, his master ordered him eto be sold, with his wife and fchildren and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Footnotes

[1]18:23Greek bondservants; also verses 28, 31[2]18:24A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer